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Nano-Sized Silicon Crystals Can Act as Electrical Conductor in Computer Chips

In the materials science equivalent of a football fan jumping onto the field and scoring a touchdown, scientists are documenting that one fundamental component of computer chips, long regarded as a passive bystander, can...

From American Chemical Society 20 Jan 2011

NIST Scientists Say That Pathway of Electrons Become Hard in Graphene-Based Devices

Electronics researchers love graphene. A two-dimensional sheet of carbon one atom thick, graphene is like a superhighway for electrons, which rocket through the material with 100 times the mobility they have in silicon. ...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 20 Jan 2011

Nanopreme--New Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Epoxy Resin for Racquets and Golf Clubs

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:APNT) is pleased to announce that it has developed a new nanotechnology carbon composite material in partnership with Japanese sporting goods giant, Yonex. The new material, call...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 19 Jan 2011

Using Nanocrystals in Lead Telluride Can Harness Electricity

Researchers at Northwestern University have placed nanocrystals of rock salt into lead telluride, creating a material that can harness electricity from heat-generating items such as vehicle exhaust systems, industrial processes and equipment and sun light more efficiently than scientists have seen in the past.

19 Jan 2011

New Cholera Toxin Detection Technique Uses Sugar Coated with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

A complex sugar may someday become one of the most effective weapons to stop the spread of cholera, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the devastating earthquake last year.

19 Jan 2011

New Nano-Structured Materials for Human Stem Cell Development

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 322,000 deaths globally per year are linked to severe injuries from fire and in many of these cases death could have been avoided with surgical intervention....

19 Jan 2011

Scientists Develop New Method to Watch the Growth of Silica Nanochannels

Crystals are typical examples for high-order structures which are able to build up on their own. In a similar way also tiny silica channels can grow and coalesce. These structures play an important role for many appli...

19 Jan 2011

Duke Scientists Identify How Diesel Exhaust Nanoparticles Damage Lung Airway Cells

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center have identified how nanoparticles from diesel exhaust damage lung airway cells, a finding that could lead to new therapies for people susceptible to airway disease.

19 Jan 2011

Researchers Develop Tiny Latex Spheres That Attract in Water to Form Unusual Structures

Researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have demonstrated bio-inspired structures that self-assemble from simple building blocks: spheres. The helical "supermolecules" are made ...

18 Jan 2011

Scientists Discover New Approach to Synthesize Ultrabright Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles

Clarkson University Physics Professor Igor Sokolov and his team have discovered a method of making the brightest ever synthesized fluorescent silica nanoparticles.

14 Jan 2011

Nanomaterials News

Nano-Sized Silicon Crystals Can Act as Electrical Conductor in Computer Chips

NIST Scientists Say That Pathway of Electrons Become Hard in Graphene-Based Devices

Nanopreme--New Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Epoxy Resin for Racquets and Golf Clubs

Using Nanocrystals in Lead Telluride Can Harness Electricity

New Cholera Toxin Detection Technique Uses Sugar Coated with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

New Nano-Structured Materials for Human Stem Cell Development

Scientists Develop New Method to Watch the Growth of Silica Nanochannels

Duke Scientists Identify How Diesel Exhaust Nanoparticles Damage Lung Airway Cells

Researchers Develop Tiny Latex Spheres That Attract in Water to Form Unusual Structures

Scientists Discover New Approach to Synthesize Ultrabright Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles

Novel Semiconductor Born from Graphene and Glass

Novel Liquid Crystal Process Unlocks High-Purity Carbon Nanotubes for Motor Applications

Biodegradable Polymers for Targeted Body Heating

Rapid Biomimetic Nanovaccine for Personalized Cancer Therapy

3D SiOx-Embedded Porous Carbon Nanofiber Hosts for Dendrite-Free Lithium Batteries

PiFM and its Role in Nanoscale Chemical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

Breaking Barriers in Thin-Film Deposition with ATLANT 3D’s DALP Technology

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